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TheKill · 30 Seconds to Mars

EXERCISE 6 OF 42
Groove C
49 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O
CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
PART U
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBUIQO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play TheKill on drums

108 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 92 BPM, 3:31 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
81/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, snare through bars 18-23, hi-hat through bars 24-41, snare through bars 42-57, hi-hat through bars 58-63 and toms through bars 64-65, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 16 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------X---X-------|
BD |x-----x---x---------x---|
TheKill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 17, 33, 41, 49, 64 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-50 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is TheKill?

92 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is TheKill hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in TheKill?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 17, 33, 41, 49, 64 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED